Olympic News
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Valerie Kasanita Adams, a shot putter from New Zealand, a four-time World champion, three time World Indoor champion and two-time Olympic and Commonwealth champion, thanked her chiropractor In a tweet for her 51st straight win.
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Basketball player and television analyst Rebecca Lobo once said, "Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else." This quotation holds true for 2012 Olympic gold medalist David Boudia.
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The Olympic torch has certainly made the rounds in its time, but now it's heading for a different location. A team of Russian cosmonauts plan to take the torch for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games into orbit, aboard the ISS.
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Doha -
In this amazing video, South Africa's "Bladerunner", Oscar Pistorius took on a new challenge on Wednesday, and it was the horse that came away with a long face.
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London -
German diver Stephan Feck finished last in the preliminary round of the men's three-meter springboard diving contest at the London Olympics. Although, he came last and was eliminated from the competition, his performance earned him fame.
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Sydney -
Jewish leaders observe a minute’s silence at 11am to remember the eleven Israeli athletes and coaches killed in Munich on 5 September 1972.
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Gravesend -
A 17-year-old Muslim fanatic tries to grab the Olympic torch as it is carried along the A226, Rochester Road in Gravesend, Kent by Anna Skora from Lublin, Poland.
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Ralph Lauren announced Friday that the uniforms it will make for the U.S. Olympic team's use at the opening and closing ceremonies of the the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia will be made in the USA.
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Crippled by a staggering legal judgment, a California town and resort area, a popular training destination for Olympic athletes, faces bankruptcy throwing the town's future into question.
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Verona -
Hickstead, the horse Eric Lamaze rode to win individual and team medals at the 2008 Olympics, collapsed and died as he was leaving the ring during a World Cup event in Italy.
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An elite American Olympic athlete was detained by a flight crew during a cross-country flight after allegedly urinating on a young child.
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Saint Petersburg -
Katya, the bear who performed at the Moscow Olympics in 1980, has spent the last two years living in a cage in a rusty bus on the outskirts of St Petersburg.
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Amman -
FIFA is holding firm to the recent hijab ban that forced the Iranian women's soccer team to forfeit their qualifying matches against Jordan and Vietnam virtually ending their dreams for a berth in the 2012 Olympic games to be held in London.
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Berlin -
A trip to the Olympiastadion in Berlin, the Olympic complex which hosted the Olympic Games in 1936 and the legendary performance of Jesse Owens.
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The International Olympic Committee will be investigating the incident last night of Canada's women's hockey players who later celebrated their win by drinking and smoking on the ice.
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Vancouver -
For the first time in Olympic history, a North American ice dancing team has won a gold medal, and they are Canadian. Tessa Virtue from London and Scott Moir from Ilderton, Ontario, soared to new heights tonight at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver.
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Kevin Pearce, 22, is in critical condition at University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City after a training accident Thursday. Pearch sustained a head injury when he hit a halfpipe.
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The arrival of the Olympic torch in London, Ontario, brings with it a story of love, and highlights a father's devotion to his late son's memory.
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After nine years the IOC are ready to reallocate the medals taken from disgraced Olympian Marion Jones after doping scandal.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins captain, Sidney Crosby, will carry the Olympic torch in his home province of Nova Scotia next month.
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The new design for the 2010 Winter Olympic medals was unveiled Thursday morning. The new design was created by Canadian aboriginal artist Corrine Hunt.
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Those rippling pectorals and bubbling abdominals haven't always been a part of the Olympic athlete's physique. The question is not have their bodies changed over the years but how are they doing it.
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British journalist John Ray of ITN says he was assaulted by Beijing police today while covering a Tibet demonstration near the main Olympic Sporting Complex. He suffered cuts and bruises after being slammed to the ground and thrown into a van.
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German archaeologists take credit for a most special find with the help of radar technology. They said they found the Olympic course where Emperor Nero raced chariots.
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Hundreds of Met police officers lined the 31 mile route around London today as violent clashes between authorities and pro-Tibet protesters resulted in dozens of arrests as they attempted to put the torch out
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The Olympic torch has reached Beijing having already been dogged at every stage of its journey by protests. There are no signs that these protests will abate both in China or around the world
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A solitary protester breached security to protest as the Olympic Torch was officially lit. China's Olympic chief Liu Qi was speaking when the protester ran up behind him. Liu Qi continued to make his speech in Chinese.
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What to do with 300 tons of panda poop produced in a year? A wildlife research center in Chengdu, China has found an interesting use for the huge amount of poop its 60 giant pandas produce. Olympic souvenirs!
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Transport plans for the 2012 Olympics rely too much on "highly speculative" assumptions 600,000 Londoners will flee the city for the games, MPs say.
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Beijing doesn't want to appear foolish in the eyes of Olympic visitors, so it's out to improve the quality of the English on it's signs. "Show Mercy to the Slender Grass" anyone?
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Olympic Image
File photo: Caroline Paré
File photo: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
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The Berlin's Olympic Stadium
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TV Personality Tom Murro, Former 1st Daughter Chelsea Clinton and Olympic Silver Medalist Sasha Cohen attend the Carnegie Hall 2012-2013 Season opening night gala at Carnegie Hall on October 3, 2012 in New York City.
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Christine Rondeau
Two pairs of the nearly three million pairs of mittens distributed by The Hudson Bay Company.
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The Berlin's Olympic Stadium
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The Berlin's Olympic Stadium
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London 2012
The flags of the competing nations are paraded through the stadium during the Closing Ceremony on Day 16 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium.
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The Berlin's Olympic Stadium
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